My article on rising food prices has just come out in Peterborough Kids, Lakeridge Kids, and Northumberland Kids magazines. Hit their websites to check it out. You can find a .pdf of it by clicking on the article. Excerpt: It’s no secret that food prices are going up. And up. And up. We hear about […]
My coverage of Giller Prize nominated writer, Sarah Salecky’s, reading at Traill College earlier this month. Sarah was a pleasure to both listen to and meet. Read the entire piece here. “After getting into Peterborough earlier,” she told the crowd. “I was brought to [professor] Molly Bythe’s home – her living room, the place where […]
A quick hour of messing around in the studio gives you this seventy (voices) demo . It’s a rough draft of a recording. In other words, as messy as all of my other “in progress” music Seventy (Voices) is a conversation between a widower and the voices in his empty rooms. The recording levels are […]
I love when the Leafs show a tiny amount of success and their fans get all puffed up and start to celebrate and trash talk other teams. It makes the season-ending shoe-gazing and deathly silence so much more fun. You would think that the fans would learn to be a bit more cautious — that […]
Interesting… Bruce mixes traditional Springsteenian riffery (though with a stronger keyboard emphasis than his usual guitar-driven one) and mixes it with synths and drum machine beats. He takes his ironic anthem/lament lyrical juxtoposition (see: “Born in the USA”) and marries it to a… what? Arcade Fire “Suburbs” album alt-rock? I tuned out Springsteen years ago […]
Does anyone recall Max Young? Used to teach Classics at Trent in the early 90’s? Mad as a hatter, his tutorials on Greek tragedy were less informative than entertaining. Comic, though in a nervous titter kind of way. You never knew what Max was going to say in class, but it was often bizarre, occasionally […]
It’s official! The first ever #petertweeterawards will be held on Thursday, March 1st at Splice Restaurant & Lounge. The #petertweeters will showcase our local online community and award some of our brightest social media stars. Hosted by the lovely and talented duo of Dani Stover and Catherine Hanrahan, the awards will mix hilarity with well-deserved […]
According to a new media release, the Federal Conservatives would have us believe that radical billionaire socialists and foreign special interest groups are trying to prevent Canada from any and all energy production projects. My favourite part of the loopy missive is when Natural Resource Minister, Joe Oliver, decries that “under our current system, building […]